GRE Word List
RIDDLE
a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum
The meaning of the word riddle is a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| trappings | outward signs |
| servile | of or befitting a menial position |
| magistrate | an official entrusted with administration of the laws: such as |
| recuperate | to get back : regain |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| contrived | having an unnatural or false appearance or quality : artificial |
| ethnic | of or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background |
| stringent | tight |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| pillage | the act of looting or plundering especially in war |